A native of Guatemala, María del Pilar Bonilla's own research interests are in the area of civil and commercial law and law and economics. She earned her law degree magna cum laude from the Universidad Francisco Marroquín, where she teaches notarial and civil law. She earned both a master's in law degree and a doctor of laws degree with honours from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is a research fellow with the Fundación para el Desarrollo de Guatemala.
Articles
Introducción a los principios rectores de una normativa en materia de garantías mobiliarias, DeCita (2007)
Importance of Enacting a New Law For Secured Transactions in Guatemala, Inter-American Trade Report (2005)
Bankruptcies and reorganization proceedings in Guatemalan legislation, Inter-American Trade Report (2004)
El Estado de Derecho, Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Francisco Marroquín (1999)
Los Estados de Excepción, Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Francisco Marroquín (1999)
Books
Un nuevo código civil para el siglo XXI: un ejercicio académico (with Juan Javier del Granado, Alejandro Guzmán Brito, Alfredo Bullard González, Bruno Meyerhof Salama, Carlos Pablo Márquez, Crispulo Marmolejo Gonzáles, Dante Haro Reyes, Eduardo Andrés Caamaño Rojo, Eduardo Andrés Pigretti, Félix Huanca Ayaviri, Fernando Castillo Cadena, Francisco González de Cossío, Francisco Reyes Villamizar, Hugo Alejandro Acciarri, Luciano Bennetti Timm, Mateo Miró, Maximiliano Marzetti, Mónika Infante Henríquez, Pablo Alejandro Iannello, Rafael Mery Nieto, and Santiago Montt), Juan Javier del Granado (2009)
Legal scholars in the Anglo-American common law can overlook the connection between particular ordinances and...